1837.] on the Columns of Delhi, Allahabad, Betiah, %c. 607 



creetly and respectfully use their most persuasive efforts (at conver- 

 sion) : and acting on the heart and on the eyes of the children, for my 

 sake penetrate in like manner among the charitably disposed of other 

 queens and princes for the purpose (of imparting) religious enthusiasm 

 and thorough religious instruction. And this is the true religious 

 devotion, this the sum of religious instruction : (viz.) that it shall in- 

 crease the mercy and charity, the truth and purity, the kindness and 

 honesty of the world. 



Thus spake king Devanampiya Piyadasi : — And whateversoever 

 benevolent acts have been done by me, the same shall be prescribed 

 as duties to the people who follow after me : and in this (manner) 

 shall their influence and increase be manifest, — by doing service to 

 father and mother ; by doing service to spiritual pastors ; by respect- 

 ful demeanour to the aged and full of years, — and by kindness and 



7. Dhamm&patipaticha, yd iyam 33 daydddne sachesochave mandaves&dhave cha 34 

 lokasa hevam vadhisatiti. Devdnampiye piya dasi Idja hevam dhd, ydnihikdni cha mama 

 ya sadhavdni katdni 35 tarn loke anupatipanne tamcha anuvidhiyanti 36 ; tena vadhitd cha 



8. vadhisanti cha 37 mdtd pitisu sususdyd ; — gurusu sususdyd 38 ; vaydmahdla- 

 kauam anupatipatiyd 39 ; — babhanasamanesu, — kapanavalakesu, avaddsa bhatikesu sam- 



33. Iyam, feminine, agreeing with pratipattl, the worthier of the two as in 

 Latin. 



34. Of these three coupled qualities the two first are knowu from the north 

 tablet : The third in the large facsimile reads mandave sddhame, which may 

 be rendered ^•^s^^rif 'among the squalid- clothed, the outcasts (lokasa) of the 

 world.' But though agreeing letter for letter, the sense is unsatisfactory, and I 

 have preferred a translation on the supposition that the derivation of the words 

 is from madhava, sweet, bland, and sadhu, honest. Sddhu is also a term of salu- 

 tation used to those who have attained arahat-hood. See preceding page 518. 



35 « ^nf^T^ SUfsrf^WlT ^nreTf^rSrrrfiT* ' whateversoever noble actions 

 by me are done.' 



36. fj (for 7fTf*f) %TiR 'WSfcPTt fTlfiT^r ^rf^^ ' these things, 

 unto the people who wait upon me for instruction, are prescribed as duties.' 

 fVsr[«r sacred rites enjoined by the vedas. 



37. -^j- "^f^ffp^" Tf|f^$lf%. ' ^y tnis (means) (those good acts) having 

 increased, shall cause to increase also (the following, good acts ; viz.) 



38. ^TfTTf^rS^r SJ^nsRJT JTT^r ras?xr?jr ' rendering service to father and mother, 

 and the same to spiritual guides' the next word vayd mahdlakdnam, is inter- 

 preted by R. P. as : ' the very aged' — there is no corresponding Sanskrit word ; 

 V?Tt%^mf ma y be the bald-headed, from ^ffsfoR-, forehead. A great man is 

 called barra hapdl, from a notion that a man's destiny is written on his 



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